Citizenship Quotes
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Let us give future generations the gift of Earth citizenship by first giving it to ourselves.
— Ilchi Lee
In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.
— Phyllis Schlafly
Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.
— Frantz Fanon
Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.
— Sarah Vowell
There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
— H. Rap Brown
Bordoni and his wife fled to Venezuela, where he used some of the stolen money to buy a $3 million home and citizenship.103
— Gerald Posner
I have never concealed my dual citizenship. People involved in state business should probably declare their dual citizenship if they have it.
— Gennady Timchenko
I consider writing an act of good citizenship.
— Kurt Vonnegut
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Those who take their money abroad in an effort to avoid paying American taxes should lose their American citizenship.
— Robert Reich
We do not support an automatic pathway to citizenship,
— Elaine Chao
If a policy is wrongheaded feckless and corrupt I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.
— David H. Hackworth
Political citizenship has progressed, while social citizenship has regressed.
— Pierre Rosanvallon
Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.
— Calvin Coolidge
Arizona is in the midst of a fiscal crisis. We've cut school funding. And they pass a bill questioning Obama's citizenship? For real?
— Kyrsten Sinema
We're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship.
— Jennifer Pahlka
Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.
— Michael Cunningham
Perhaps only when people can enjoy their differences as a resource of cultural enrichment do they become truly civilized.
— Herb Kawainui Kane
Without a serious study of journalism, there can be no understanding of citizenship, democracy, or community.
— Roy Peter Clark
Citizenship rights is about making all Iranians feel they are part of one nation, one identity, under one umbrella they can feel proud of.
— Hassan Rouhani
And we'll build a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants who are already contributing to our economy!
— Hillary Clinton
Our citizenship is in eternity; history is our temporary residence.
— Erwin Raphael McManus
I think that anybody who works and pays taxes ought to have a right for citizenship,
— Cruz Bustamante
I strongly support not just citizenship classes but also teaching children how the law works and the many ways it affects their lives.
— Cherie Blair
I want to declare my Citizenship in the Kingdom of God and my allegiance to His Kingdom and His City!
— David Berg
I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I merited citizenship.
— Bharati Mukherjee
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.[As quoted in Plutarch's Of Banishment] — Socrates
We are world citizens, but tribal chiefs won't let us cross the frontier
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
The Know Nothings fought to delay citizenship for the new immigrants and bar them from voting.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Dreaming is the opportunity to hold a citizenship in two worlds, equally real but with different logic and limitations.
— William C. Dement
I still passionately support comprehensive immigration reform legislation with a path to full and equal citizenship.
— Hillary Clinton
Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship.
— Nellie L. McClung
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
— John Stuart Mill
Governments represent their citizens in the same way as parasites represent their hosts.
— Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
But simply someone who broke the law, came here, say, 'I'll give you citizenship now,' that I don't think is going to happen.
— Bob Goodlatte
I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet. I believe that I will return. Poets always return in flesh or on paper.
— Joseph Brodsky
I have no interest in Israeli citizenship ... Israel does not want me, nor do I want Israel.
— Mordechai Vanunu
With my pen I have engraved warrants of citizenship in the most remote corners, for truly the world has been my home.
— James A. Michener
Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.
— James Meredith
I don't say women's rights - I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
France was the first country in Europe to grant Jews the full rights of citizenship without qualification.
— Leon Uris
I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen.
— Antonio Banderas
Citizens Debt has been helping people with reliable debt advice and other services in solving their debt problems.
— Citizenship And Immigration Services
Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong.
— Mahatma Gandhi
You are a citizen, and citizenship carries responsibilities.
— Paul Collier
Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being.
— David Blunkett
Christians have a dual citizenship - on earth and in heaven - and our citizenship in heaven ought to make us better people here on earth.
— Warren W. Wiersbe
Good government is no substitute for self-government.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
— Jackie Robinson
Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.
— Charles B. Rangel
Of all the studies by which men acquire citizenship of the intellectual commonwealth, no single one is so indispensable as the study of the past.
— Bertrand Russell
I'm just a citizen temporarily in public service.
— Ronald Reagan
I think it's important to live in a nice country rather than a powerful one. Power makes everybody crazy.
— Kurt Vonnegut
The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.
— Bainbridge Colby
Tax is citizenship's rent.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.
— Julian Baggini
Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship.
— Phyllis Schlafly
History is the key to citizenship.
— Taylor Branch
There should be a pathway to citizenship - not a special pathway and not no pathway.
— Jason Chaffetz
To love country means to rise above I am because I am. It is to recognize that I am because we are.
— Eric Liu
Citizenship should be based on those who have a close and real relationship with this country and its inhabitants.
— Margaret Thatcher
The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.
— Norman Cousins
Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party.
— Mark McKinnon
Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles.
— Dennis Kucinich
Yes, Europe needs to be more welcoming, but that's only half of it. Muslims need to embrace the obligations of European residence and citizenship.
— David Ignatius
The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship.
— Vanessa Redgrave
The first step in becoming a global citizen is stripping away the preconceptions of how things should be in order to see things for what they are.
— Colleen Mariotti
Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
— Victoria Woodhull
If I had to choose between baseball's Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say first-class citizenship.
— Jackie Robinson
We started a movement ... to build character, citizenship and confidence in young people.
— Andrew Shue
Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it
— Martha Gellhorn
Emember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship.
— James A. Garfield
I am a citizen of the world.
— Sylvia Beach
One of the highest marks of citizenship is fighting for the common defense.
— Richard Brookhiser
